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IMT 582 Readiness Assessment. Bob Boiko UW iSchool ischool.washington.edu Metatorial Services Inc. www.metatorial.com. What we will cover. What is a readiness assessment? What does it consist of? What must it accomplish? How do you plan for one?. What is a Readiness Assessment?.
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IMT 582Readiness Assessment Bob Boiko UW iSchoolischool.washington.edu Metatorial Services Inc. www.metatorial.com
What we will cover • What is a readiness assessment? • What does it consist of? • What must it accomplish? • How do you plan for one?
What is a Readiness Assessment? • What’s been done to date? • Who is/should be involved? • What do we know? • What is our mandate? • Who is our team?
What Does it Consist of? • Assessing assumptions • Audiences • Content • Systems • Outputs • Assessing status • Current efforts • Past efforts • Interest • Building consensus • The players • The opinions • The current coalitions
What are Your Tools? • Networking and discussion • Initiative document collection • Strategy document collection • Categorization, reflection, and feedback
How do You Plan? • Team meetings • What do we know? • Who do we know? • Collection effort • Initial round • Wider rounds • Organization effort • Draft, review, discussion, draft • Deliverable preparation • Draft, review, discussion, draft
What are the Planning Deliverables • Readiness project plan • Staff • Schedule • Budget • Strategy for success • Who will do each task • How will they be sure to succeed
What is Success? • Clearly defines the assessment • Definition, purpose • Clearly defined deliverables • Definition, contribution to purpose. • Clear tasks • Right granularity, linked to skills • Specific skills • Reasonable schedule • Reasonable cost
What are the Readiness Deliverables? • Team assessment • Document inventory • Project strategy • Education plan • Preliminary project plan • Risk assessment
Team assessment • Who do we have? • What are their skills? • What are we missing? • Who do we know?
Document inventory • Discovery • Taxonomy • Conclusions
Project strategy • What consensus exists and what needs to exist? • What sponsorship do we need? • What are our strengths? • Who do we need to succeed? • How do we proceed?
Education plan • What skills are needed? • What enlightenment is needed?
Preliminary project plan • Broad tasks • Broad timelines • Deliverables • Staffing required
Risk assessment • Organizational hurdles • Technical hurdles • Gaps in skills • Uneven progress toward the initiative